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Rattled: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was belittled at PMQs by Sir Keir Starmer for humiliating Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the Elgin Marbles. Mr Sunak suggested everything Rishi Sunak touches turns to something unpleasant that Home Secretary James Cleverly is accused of blurting out at last week's PMQs. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

PMQs: Rishi Sunak humiliating Greece's Prime Minister was a petulant clanger tha...

Wilko chairman Lisa Wilkinson was accused by the Business and Trade Select Committee in the House of Commons of 'burgling a failing business' by MP Liam Byrne

Wilko collapse: Lisa Wilkinson accused by MP of 'burgling a failing business'

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Secretary of State for the Home Department, James Cleverly, arrive ahead of the ceremonial welcome for the President of South Korea. PIC: Chris Jackson/PA Wire

How the Tories have broken Britain over the past 13 years - YP Letters

Metro Bank’s shareholders have approved a funding package worth £925 million in a bid to secure its future on Britain’s high streets.(Photo by Mike Egerton/PA Wire)

Metro Bank shareholders approve rescue deal in crunch vote

Crowning glory: Melita Emanuel-Carr, left, playing for England in the Commonwealth Games final against Australia on the Gold Coast in 2018 (Picture: Michael Dodge/Getty Images)

Melita Emanuel-Carr on Sheffield Hatters, Sheffield Sharks double-header

Leeds Community Homes is constructing more and better rental properties

Ethical and community led housing in Leeds is under starters orders

Anglers take part in the warm-up Flattie Bash event on Hornsea beach

Anglers from across Europe to descend on Yorkshire's coast for competition

Investors have stood with Severn Trent through a turbulent time for the water industry and will be keen to see how the company is doing as it reports its first half results this week. (Photo by Rui Vieira/PA Wire)

Shareholders will be keen to see if Severn Trent is turning on investment taps

The interior of a Ford is seen as flood waters recede in the village of Catcliffe after Storm Babet. PIC: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Are scientists not explaining findings on climate change clearly? - Andy Brown

Union and EU flags fly outside the Palace of Westminster, London. PIC: PA

Steps to restore freedom of movement to be welcomed - YP Letters

The Advanced Manufacturing Conference 2023 was held at the Cutlers Hall in Sheffield. (Photo supplied by Cristina Sesma)

'Why Britain needs a long term industrial strategy'

The University of York is to play a leading role in the research initiative

York to play key role in new £150m venture fund for climate change solutions

The 'Bee Network' buses form part of the franchising model for bus services in Greater Manchester. PIC: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

The cost of privatisation on public service - YP Letters

Apollo the American bulldog

Britain's loneliest dog: Apollo the American bulldog hoping for new home

'I received my home and contents insurance renewal email a couple of weeks ago, and once more found myself wading into the breach of rip-off Britain.' PIC: Alamy/PA.

Consumers have been left fighting their own corner - Jayne Dowle

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX in-conversation at the conclusion of the second day of the AI Safety Summit. PIC: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Wire

To his credit the PM has started taking the right steps on AI - David Blunkett

Mark Barrow has filmed underwater along the whole River Wharfe. Photo: Beneath British Waters

Yorkshire filmmaker shows underwater world along entire length of River Wharfe

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk during the AI safety summit, the first global summit on the safe use of artificial intelligence, at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Picture: Leon Neal/PA Wire

What Elon Musk's 'PayPal Mafia' can teach North about levelling up: Tim Mills

House prices in Yorkshire are expected to rise by almost £40,000 by 2028

House prices in Yorkshire expected to rise by almost £40,000 by 2028

A man drinking a pint of beer in a pub. PIC: Johnny Green/PA Wire

Hospitality is going to be in trouble in the absence of support - Jayne Dowle

Rishi Sunak speaks during a closing press conference at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park.

Rishi Sunak: Britain's role in AI will tip the balance in favour of humanity
Rishi Sunak has said Britain’s leading role in Artificial Intelligence will “tip the balance in favour of humanity” following agreements with top companies to vet their technology before it is released.

George Jabbour is the councillor for Helmsley & Sinnington.

Maintaining the bus fare cap at £2 is the right thing to do - George Jabbour

Make your family days out at the beach even more special. Picture – supplied.

Ad Feature Rare chance to buy beach hut for family days out

Mike Skinner of The Streets. Picture: Ben Cannon

How Mike Skinner of The Streets turned into a film director

Natalie Wright is the new Leeds Office Managing Partner of Mazars. She is passionate about promoting social mobility. (Photo supplied by Mazars)

Why Natalie Wright of Mazars is passionate about social mobility

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and the Parliamentary Labour Party welcome newly elected MPs Alistair Strathern and Sarah Edwards to the Houses of Parliament. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Why is Labour omitting funding of social care reforms? - Daxa Patel

Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. PIC: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Leaders right to avoid point scoring over Israel-Gaza - The Yorkshire Post says

Sir Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Labour’s pledge to build more homes hasn’t been thought through - YP Letters

The area of Catterick Garrison where a town centre is set to be created Picture: Google

Blueprints to create town centre in Rishi Sunak’s constituency unveiled

Peter Richards, the seller of the David Hockney items

David Hockney sculpture gifted to couple sells for more than £100,000

View of outside Leeds City Station and the Platform Building looking along Bishopgate. PIC: Tony Johnson

The Government must find the money for the mass-transit system - Andrew Vine

Busted are coming to Scarborough's Open Air Theatre on August 31, 2024.

Scarborough Open Air Theatre to welcome pop punk stars Busted
Pop punk chart toppers Busted are heading to Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre next summer.

'What is needed across much of Yorkshire is not a network of new towns constructed with little control over planning. What is needed is the restoration of pride in the old ones.' PIC: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Want to see planning laws bulldozed? Be careful what you wish for - Andy Brown

The sun sets behind the Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm in Liverpool Bay in the Irish Sea. PIC: PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images

Energy security is key to prosperity - Claire Coutinho

A fireworks display last year to celebrate bonfire night. PIC: Kelvin Stuttard

Why it’s time to take fireworks off the shelves now and forever - David Behrens

Miriam Skinner

Miriam Skinner on the magic of Robin Hood's Bay and Yorkshire's best pizza

Cow and Calf rocks, Ilkley Moor,

New book explains why Ilkley is one of the best places to live in Britain

Yazmin Belo as Hosanna, Rochelle Neil as Leah and Saffron Coomber as Chantrell in Three Little Birds. Photo: ©ITV.

Sir Lenny Henry on post-Windrush set series Three Little Birds

A hedgehog house from Gardenesque.com

How you can help our hedgehogs this autumn and winter

Newton Faulkner at The Leadmill, Sheffield. Picture: Scott Antcliffe

Gig Review: Newton Faulkner at The Leadmill, Sheffield

Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist turned naturalist and writer. Photo: Chris Larkin

Yorkshire writer on the power of rivers and the need to protect them

A file photo of a door being closed by a prison guard. PIC: PA

The Conservatives are no longer the party of law and order - Andrew Vine

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham views the 'Bee Network' buses at manufacturer Alexander Dennis in Larbert, Falkirk. PIC: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

We will take power out of the hands of Whitehall - Louise Haigh

'What we need is a step change in the way we produce and sell our products and a circular economy that mines and dumps little.'

The growth in middle class consumers means more waste - Andy Brown

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has said: "No prison system should further criminalise offenders or trap criminals who might otherwise take the right path in a cycle of criminality through a merry-go-round of short sentences. This is the wrong use of our prison system and taxpayers’ money."

Law-abiders in Britain will not accept going soft on criminals - TYP says

John McGoldrick, Curator of Industrial History at the museum holding a cast aluminium cylinder head for a LandRover. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

Incredible model of Leeds' historic Crown Point Bridge to go on display

Allerton Castle. (Pic credit: Simon Hulme)

Six horror films that were filmed in Yorkshire perfect to watch on Halloween

A Black Country boozer called The Tilted Barrel where pool balls 'roll uphill' is now Britain's wonkiest pub following the loss of the Crooked House.

Britain’s newly crowned ‘wonkiest pub’ set to go on auction

A general view of prison staff at a Category C prison in Leicester. PIC: Jacob King/PA Wire

Pressures on prison system are a result of Government failures - The YP says

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Generations of women who face violence have been failed - Yvette Cooper

Dewsbury Arcade in 2013, three years before closure

Dewsbury Arcade set to become 'Britain's first community-owned shopping centre'

'Boris Johnson showed real vision for transport projects.' PIC: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Boris Johnson showed he had a vision for transport projects - YP Letters

Labour party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, delivers the leader's speech on the third day of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

Keir Starmer pitches to working class and Tory voters ahead of next election

Nigel Farage speaks with protesters outside Downing Street in central London, on the first day of the expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to include the whole of London. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

I'd rather have a political party led by Farage or Boris: Sarah Todd

Britain's Got Satart-Ups launch event, held at Nexus at the University of Leeds.

New Investment platform hopes to redirect business investments to North

The research by Professor Julie Gottlieb, Professor of Modern History, is the first to be primarily concerned with how ordinary people throughout the UK responded to the Munich Crisis. (Photo supplied by University of Sheffield)

Appeasement of Hitler was linked to suicides in Britain, says academic

Angela Rayner gestures as she addresses delegates during day one of the annual Labour party conference in Liverpool, England.

Labour promises housing boost with reforms to green belt

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves says Labour will overhaul ‘antiquated planning system’

Former prime minister Liz Truss leaves the Great British Growth Rally, a fringe event where she spoke alongside Dame Priti Patel, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Ranil Jayawardena during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Under my watch Labour will never spend what we cannot afford - Rachel Reeves

The Tetley, contemporary Art Bar & Kitchen, Events & Workshops, Creative Workspaces, Leeds.

The Tetley Leeds: Next steps for landmark former brewery headquarters